“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.” — G.K. Chesterton Flower Copy Share Image
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton Fish Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Modernism Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.” — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Independent thinking Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.” — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“For in the average human house there is one hole by which money comes in and a hundred by which it goes… — G.K. Chesterton Money Copy Share Image
“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” — G.K. Chesterton Church Copy Share Image
“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Illusion Copy Share Image
“I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“First, it must be realized that liveliness in the preacher does not mean liveliness in the congregation. On the contrary, the extreme… — G.K. Chesterton Preacher Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Look at the eyebrows. They mean that infernal pride which made Satan so proud that he sneered even at heaven when he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For instance, the writer of whom I speak indulges in the millionth mechanical repetition of the charge of mechanical repetition. He says… — G.K. Chesterton Prayer Copy Share Image
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to… — G.K. Chesterton Contradiction Copy Share Image
“People are very curious nowadays in their way of talking about "the spirit" of a thing. There is, for example, a particular… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into… — G.K. Chesterton Love Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Hope Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I'm a practical man,' said the doctor with gruff humour, 'and I don't bother much about religion and philosophy.' 'You'll… — G.K. Chesterton Good men Copy Share Image
“So far as he could prevent it, Dickens never permitted a day of his life to be ordinary. There was always some… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in… — G.K. Chesterton Prophets Copy Share Image
“It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.” — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophical Copy Share Image
